Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below (i to v) Although scientific skill is necessary, it is by no means sufficient. A dictatorship of men of science would very soon become horrible. Skill without wisdom may prove destructive. For this reason, if for no other, it is great importance that those who receive a scientific education should not be merely scientific, but should have some understanding of that kind of wisdom which, if it can be imparted at all, can only be imparted by cultural side of education. Science enables us to know the means to any chosen end, but it does not help us to decide upon what ends should be pursued. If you wish to exterminate the human race, it will show you how to do it. If you wish to secure adequate prosperity for the whole human race, science will tell you what you must do. But it will not tell you whether one of these ends is more desirable than another.
(i) What is not sufficient? (ii) How can skill be proved destructive? (iii) What is destructive between knowledge and wisdom? (iv) What will science not tell you? (v) Give a suitable title to the passage?
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below (i to v) Although scientific skill is necessary, it is by no means sufficient. A dictatorship of men of science would very soon become horrible. Skill without wisdom may prove destructive. For this reason, if for no other, it is great importance that those who receive a scientific education should not be merely scientific, but should have some understanding of that kind of wisdom which, if it can be imparted at all, can only be imparted by cultural side of education. Science enables us to know the means to any chosen end, but it does not help us to decide upon what ends should be pursued. If you wish to exterminate the human race, it will show you how to do it. If you wish to secure adequate prosperity for the whole human race, science will tell you what you must do. But it will not tell you whether one of these ends is more desirable than another.
(i) What is not sufficient? (ii) How can skill be proved destructive? (iii) What is destructive between knowledge and wisdom? (iv) What will science not tell you? (v) Give a suitable title to the passage?
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Answer of the questions given are as follows:-
(I) Line 1 - Although scientific skill is necessary, it is by no means sufficient.
Depicts- Scientific skills are necessary but not sufficient.
(II) Line 2- Skill without wisdom may prove destructive by dictatorship of men of science would very soon become horrible.
Depicts- Skills without wisdom can be proved destruptive.
(III) Line 3- destructive between knowledge and wisdom by those who receive a scientific education should not be merely scientific, but should have some understanding of that kind of wisdom which, if it can be imparted at all, can only be imparted by cultural side of education.
Depicts- Destructive between Wisdom and Knowledge is that to receive a scientific education it should not be scientific at all, but it should contain some understanding of kind of wisdom imparted.
(IV) Line 4- Science will not tell you whether one of these ends is more desirable than another.
Depicts- Science will not tell us what is going to be the result or is it going to be what you desire for.
(V) Suitable title for passage- Calamitous phronesis and sophia.
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